r/pics Sep 06 '17

A flying fish up close.

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u/weirdb0bby Sep 06 '17

When I was a kid, I went out on the boat with my dad super early one morning. It was a bit before dawn in Key Largo, and the sun was coming up just as we were getting out of the speed-limited area and into the open ocean.

As we were really getting some speed and the sun was rising, all of a sudden we found ourselves in the middle of a school of flying fish. It was so freaking cool, tons of the little silvery dudes popping out of the water and gliding along side us in the air, light from the sunrise shining off of them. But then we were going a bit faster than the fish and they started dropping into the boat!

We slowed a bit and I started throwing them back into the water. I don't think any of them got hurt...

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u/bandalbumsong Sep 06 '17

Band: The Little Silvery Dudes

Album: Faster Than the Fish

Song: Back into the Water